Quebec has bilingual access according to article 22 then, I rely almost exclusively on english services within the city of Montreal and have friends who do the same in the Gatineau and Sherbrooke area, which is where Quebec's english minority is concentrated despite.
I will also note that the french minorities were not accounted for decades in provinces with substantial minorities.
Every province ran afoul of that until the 90s, Quebec was no exception.
And you can get service in English in Quebec from the government, otherwise the mockup of the Ãtat Civil's website in english has to be one of the most incredibly well conceived waste of time ever.
The fact is, blocking p2p is an annoyance for the people who use it for "legitimate" purposes, it won't stop sharing, and it's attacking the protocol which itself is legal. I'm tired of dealing with the throttling of BT when I'm trying to get hold of distro upgrades.
1. Bill 101 allows for bilingual advertising.
2. A lot of these federal things are treading on provincial attributions in the constitution: Canada is a federation, not whatever Ottawa's whims declare.
Also, iirc, there used to be a Quebec based torrent tracker and its owners are still Quebecois, but Quebecois laws (which I suspect came with hefty palm greasing but heh) ended up forcing them to relocate somewhere where IP laws where a bit less draconian and not defended by corporate overlords (which is what it is, Quebec's "socialism", as the ideological zombies scream, is really a bit of social services and a hell of a lot of corporatism).
They own one of the two halves of Quebec's duopoly (they're Comcast's half), are about the sole distributor for cable, happen to own the most listened to off-cable channel (for some shows and some days, admittedly), and a newspaper whose readership stats are considerably distorted because they somehow feel they're special enough to pretend that 10 times as many people read their shit as they sell.
They've done that sort of bullshit a lot to protect their IP, they've also crippled the music on the electronic downloads section of their brick-mortar front's web presence with DRM that doesn't work in anything but WMP9-10 and maybe with a prayer 11. Apparently it doesn't even play on a Zune and trying to take it off using wmp just broke the songs.
And they seem utterly unaware of people not using Windows, or IE for that matter, which is a whole lot of fun trying to work with their crap. Accessibility neither last I checked their ISP's corporate page, but that was a few years ago...
Thing is, nothing really is there to break up the damn provincial monopolies/cartels unless the government does, and the government doing gets people screaming "SOCIALISM" - which has a hint of truth I guess since the last cartel they broke apart was almost entirely nationalised. And while it worked with it and not-nationalising but breaking up might work if put in practice, all it does now is get a regional third party made up of essentially the french wing of Harper's electors almost elected.
Cooptel/CAM covers only a part of the island since they're primarily a Monteregian ISP IIRC, but they offer comparatively better prices, bandwidth caps and rates than Bell does. And it's a coop (yeah, I know, that didn't make the "we're a bank, but not really" era Desjardins not suck, but still, in general it's a good thing)
You've never heard a Quebecer swear, have you?;)
My mother is from Britanny, I know a bit of it and swears in it probably sound a bit weak to you too (I'd tend to agree). I live in Montreal and with my strong french/breton accent I tend to not have the same weight so I just avoid swearing in French, but the Quebecois have a plethora of swear words that are rather delivered in the same way as Spanish and Italian does.
Konqueror, yeah (but kde is not the OS, and while it's good, it has some issues that are very windowsy)
Nautilus, in most distros, is only installed if you grab the gnome-desktop metapackage, same as mono, and will only flag the metapackage for removal.
Average linux/BSD distro, MacOS X, Solaris, etc - comes with a browser, allows you to install others, will not break if you remove the bundled browser, and will not kill the OS (although kde tried hard to with konqueror;) ).
Windows - The integrated browser is barely removable as it breaks functionality, some software will use it even if it's not the default browser, including first party software. It crashing means the OS might go down, entirely as it tends to escalate into the entire gui, and in windows' case that tends to mean the os, going down.
PureDarwin has apparently run into non-trivial issues with regards to getting Darwin to boot at all, and OpenDarwin died from developer ennui and Apple making some things unnecessarily annoying when they switched to intel essentially, making the current release of opendarwin a rough equivalent to, iirc, Tiger.
There were actually long spates of discussion over at the Royal Navy article on wikipedia because some editors insisted on keeping a timeframe over which it was undefeated in the description. The original version essentially ignored Cartagena de Indias, any defeat suffered in the American Revolution, De Ruyter, and any setback in between as "too minor to count".
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Quebec has bilingual access according to article 22 then, I rely almost exclusively on english services within the city of Montreal and have friends who do the same in the Gatineau and Sherbrooke area, which is where Quebec's english minority is concentrated despite. I will also note that the french minorities were not accounted for decades in provinces with substantial minorities.
Every province ran afoul of that until the 90s, Quebec was no exception. And you can get service in English in Quebec from the government, otherwise the mockup of the Ãtat Civil's website in english has to be one of the most incredibly well conceived waste of time ever.
Hobbes, go back to your grave.
Sadly it would seem they're Bell resellers, oh well... *sighs*
My mind read this and felt it was one punchline or no.
So not terribly different from most of Canada and the US, which kinda makes your point moot. I wasn't aware Orange ran the local providers as a rule.
One's own interests tend to involve further cooperation, if the person cares about long term survival of their person.
and they own some stuff west, just not dominating there like they do here
Scary thought :/
The fact is, blocking p2p is an annoyance for the people who use it for "legitimate" purposes, it won't stop sharing, and it's attacking the protocol which itself is legal. I'm tired of dealing with the throttling of BT when I'm trying to get hold of distro upgrades.
Culture and Education are the preserve of provincial governments, if you're Canadian, go back to civics, plzkthx.
1. Bill 101 allows for bilingual advertising. 2. A lot of these federal things are treading on provincial attributions in the constitution: Canada is a federation, not whatever Ottawa's whims declare.
Also, iirc, there used to be a Quebec based torrent tracker and its owners are still Quebecois, but Quebecois laws (which I suspect came with hefty palm greasing but heh) ended up forcing them to relocate somewhere where IP laws where a bit less draconian and not defended by corporate overlords (which is what it is, Quebec's "socialism", as the ideological zombies scream, is really a bit of social services and a hell of a lot of corporatism).
They own one of the two halves of Quebec's duopoly (they're Comcast's half), are about the sole distributor for cable, happen to own the most listened to off-cable channel (for some shows and some days, admittedly), and a newspaper whose readership stats are considerably distorted because they somehow feel they're special enough to pretend that 10 times as many people read their shit as they sell.
They've done that sort of bullshit a lot to protect their IP, they've also crippled the music on the electronic downloads section of their brick-mortar front's web presence with DRM that doesn't work in anything but WMP9-10 and maybe with a prayer 11. Apparently it doesn't even play on a Zune and trying to take it off using wmp just broke the songs.
And they seem utterly unaware of people not using Windows, or IE for that matter, which is a whole lot of fun trying to work with their crap. Accessibility neither last I checked their ISP's corporate page, but that was a few years ago...
Thing is, nothing really is there to break up the damn provincial monopolies/cartels unless the government does, and the government doing gets people screaming "SOCIALISM" - which has a hint of truth I guess since the last cartel they broke apart was almost entirely nationalised. And while it worked with it and not-nationalising but breaking up might work if put in practice, all it does now is get a regional third party made up of essentially the french wing of Harper's electors almost elected.
That sort of duopoly exists in Canada and the US, European countries have a competitive telecom market, think again.
Cooptel/CAM covers only a part of the island since they're primarily a Monteregian ISP IIRC, but they offer comparatively better prices, bandwidth caps and rates than Bell does. And it's a coop (yeah, I know, that didn't make the "we're a bank, but not really" era Desjardins not suck, but still, in general it's a good thing)
Cooptel ftw. Sadly, they don't cover my borough in Montreal >.
You've never heard a Quebecer swear, have you? ;)
My mother is from Britanny, I know a bit of it and swears in it probably sound a bit weak to you too (I'd tend to agree). I live in Montreal and with my strong french/breton accent I tend to not have the same weight so I just avoid swearing in French, but the Quebecois have a plethora of swear words that are rather delivered in the same way as Spanish and Italian does.
That bigoted law allows bilingual signs, self-righteous dipshit.
Basic human nature is cooperative.
Konqueror, yeah (but kde is not the OS, and while it's good, it has some issues that are very windowsy) Nautilus, in most distros, is only installed if you grab the gnome-desktop metapackage, same as mono, and will only flag the metapackage for removal.
Average linux/BSD distro, MacOS X, Solaris, etc - comes with a browser, allows you to install others, will not break if you remove the bundled browser, and will not kill the OS (although kde tried hard to with konqueror
Windows - The integrated browser is barely removable as it breaks functionality, some software will use it even if it's not the default browser, including first party software. It crashing means the OS might go down, entirely as it tends to escalate into the entire gui, and in windows' case that tends to mean the os, going down.
That would be centuries later, as 16th century Prussia was a pushover/fief of Poland and Austria was ruled by the same family in charge of Spain.
1st being a bit like that "undefeated"navy of theirs I presume.
PureDarwin has apparently run into non-trivial issues with regards to getting Darwin to boot at all, and OpenDarwin died from developer ennui and Apple making some things unnecessarily annoying when they switched to intel essentially, making the current release of opendarwin a rough equivalent to, iirc, Tiger.
There were actually long spates of discussion over at the Royal Navy article on wikipedia because some editors insisted on keeping a timeframe over which it was undefeated in the description. The original version essentially ignored Cartagena de Indias, any defeat suffered in the American Revolution, De Ruyter, and any setback in between as "too minor to count".